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        Date: 2023-03-14 08:19:41+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.440: AI, agency and intelligence

hi everyone,
the article “AI as Agency Without Intelligence: On ChatGPT, Large
Language Models, and
Other Generative Models” can be read in OA from the journal website
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-023-00621-y
Maurizio


Il 14/03/23 07:45, Humanist ha scritto:
>          Date: 2023-03-13 16:01:30+00:00
>          From: James Rovira<jamesrovira@gmail.com>
>          Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.436: pubs: AI, agency and intelligence
>
> This article looks great -- I'm looking forward to reading it. There may be
> a bit of an issue with the abstract:
>
> In this sentence, you say AI lacks intelligence:
>
> "The article argues that these LLMs can process texts with extraordinary
> success and often in a way that is indistinguishable from human output,
> while lacking any intelligence, understanding or cognitive ability."
>
> But in this sentence, you sound like you're saying AI has intelligence
> without agency:
>
> "The article concludes that LLMs, represent a decoupling of agency and
> intelligence."
>
> I'm confident you clarify in the body, but you might want to clarify within
> the abstract too? Maybe say it decouples agency from *processing*, so as a
> result lacks intelligence, or add the phrase "in human terms" to the end of
> the earlier sentence?
>
> Willard's query about the secretary was fascinating too. We might want to
> be careful about taking male interpretations of women's actions at face
> value, especially during that period. Was she anthropomorphizing, or did
> she want to be left alone because she wanted to say out loud some things
> she didn't want her male superior to hear?
>
> Jim R
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 2:54 AM Humanist<humanist@dhhumanist.org>  wrote:
>
>>          Date: 2023-03-12 18:36:11+00:00
>>          From: Luciano Floridi<lfloridi@gmail.com>
>>          Subject: OA article: "AI as Agency Without Intelligence: On
>> ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models"
>>
>> In case it may be of interest to members of the list:
>>
>> “AI as Agency Without Intelligence: On ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and
>> Other
>> Generative Models”
>> has now been published in Philosophy and Technology.
>>
>> The free OA preprint can be downloaded @SSRN
>> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4358789


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sta nella sua povertà etica
che viene dall'aver sostituito
il bene comune con l'interesse privato
luigi ciotti

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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